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Film Festival Team

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    • Yuval Adar

    A member of the Utopia Festival team for the past 11 years, Adar serves as a curator, content editor, and producer.

    Dolev Amitai

    Student and assistant teacher at the Tel-Aviv University, Filmmaker and writer for different magazines (Off-Screen, Takriv, Tel-Aviv Cinematheque).

    Lital Amos

    Content Writer

    Deborah Aroshas

    Writer and actor who speaks Hebrew, French, and English. As an actor, she has performed in theatre and film. As a creator, she writes essays and poetry, and her work has been published on various platforms worldwide.

    Uri Aviv

    Director of the Utopia Festival for Science Fiction and Future Story-telling. As the Promethean Consultancy, program curator, PMO, artistic consultant and producer, writer and speaker on topics of technology and society, science fiction and the future.

    Rina Jean Baroukh

    Literature researcher, writer, translator, editor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and in the Be'er Sheva Writer's House, Editor of the literary magazine "Speculation".

    Yaara Better Pocker

    Yaara Better Pocker is a writer, producer and a cliche of herself.

    Amir Bogen

    Bogen is a veteran film journalist, film program curator, academic scholar and festival director at LIFF (Lighthouse International Film Festival, NJ, USA)

    Yuval Brenner

    Brenner creates and explores visual world and themes using both digital tools and traditional techniques.

    Hadas Daniel

    Cinephile, MA student in Cinema Studies. Former manager and curator of “Documentary at Shapira” project.

    Yotam Dobrin

    Film programmer, co-founder of the Instagram page “The 4th Wall”, film critic at the websites “Seret” and “Geeklopedia”.

    Ohad Ephrath

    Video producer and editor working as tech director for numerous Israeli film festivals.

    Alex Fridman

    Arts & culture researcher, curator, producer and entrepreneur - a cultural jack-of-all-trades

    Shay Gabso

    Living a simple life in Tel-Aviv while dreaming and writing about other worlds. Holds great appreciation for creatives & artists.

    Eitan Gafny

    Film director who pioneered Hebrew Horror. He's also a published author and a nice person in general, with a terrible fear of cockroaches.

    Olga Gershenson

    Professor of Jewish Studies and Near Eastern Studies and Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

    Itamar Heifetz

    Artist, graphic designer, typographer, with expertise in typographic and calligraphic design, alongside design for the arts & culture worlds.

    Yotam Ishay

    International Programming Team, Utopia 2021, Actor, Writer, Amateur Gardner, Bird Enthusiast, Sailor, Dad of a Good Doggo

    Kosta Kaplan

    Musician and significant figure in new Israeli music - as lead singer and main creator in the band "Haya Miller," and through collaborative work as a guitarist, songwriter, and music producer with a long list of musicians (Hila Ruach, Zeev Tene, Ram Orion, and others).

    Veronica Kedar

    Award winning writer, director and producer.

    Jonathan Kopievker

    Cultural researcher, content editor, and film critic at Portfolio Magazine. Has lived and breathed cinema from a young age and lives as someone who writes to find meaning.

    Tamar Lieberson

    Producer working across film and festival contexts, involved in creative processes and professional collaborations.

    Didi Lubetzky

    Maya Magnat

    Theater and performance artist, academic researcher, educator and social activist at the focal point of digital culture, technology, media and intimacy.

    Tal Sara Meiri

    Artistic director and film curator., Music, film and culture researcher, DJ and actress.

    Erika Mejia

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    Yuval Ofer

    Producer, content writer and curator, DJ and activist. Former journalist and news-editor. Ofer is a member of the Utopia magazine editorial board and an artistic consultant for the film festival.

    Michael Plutno

    Documentary filmmaker and film theorist, photographer.

    Gili Porat

    Film producer, curator and researcher. Porat is the Holon Cinematheques producer and co-founder of the "Trashtalk" podcast, alongside Shani Kiniso.

    Yana Riahi

    Film director, producer. Currently working on the documentary film “South of Arad” and the web series “Mommy!, Tel Aviv.”

    Gil Rimon

    Web developer, writer

    Dana Schweppe

    International Programming Team, Utopia 2021. MA in literature, researching Hebrew literature in America, interested in Jewish dystopian writing and genre films.

    Yanai Sened

    Yanai Sened is an (ex) Programmer, (ex) Teacher, and philosophy PhD candidate, Fordham University, New York City.

    Oron Shamir

    A seasoned film critic (Haaretz, City Mouse, Mako) and founder of the award-winning film-blog srita.net. currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

    Neta Shenitzer

    Film maker and a writer.

    Amital Stern

    Amital Stern writes film, theater and other texts. She teaches experimental writing workshops.

    Amital Stern

    Amital Stern writes film, theater and other texts. She teaches experimental writing workshops.

    Barak Stern

    Screenwriter, director, and producer. A graduate of the Film Department at Minshar for Art.

    Narkis Tepler

    screenwriter, DJ, XCCV

    Dana Tor

    Researcher and writer in the field of Psychoanalysis, holder of Master's degree in English Literature from TAU, in Lacanian psychoanalytic formation.

    Pablo Utin

    Film Scholar and critic, Author of 3 books on Israeli Cinema and has a passion for teleporting which he can't currently pursue for lack of proper technology.

    Carmel Vaisman

    Digital culture researcher at Tel Aviv University, and creator of the podcasts "The Posthuman Condition" and "Network Dinosaurs".

    Achinoam Virt

    Virt is a creative, writer and artistic producer, she addresses identity, urbanism and digital spaces in her creative work.

    Daphna Yeminy

    Utopia 2023 production team, Yenimy comes from a background in design, from stage and costumes design, to jewelry and carpentry.